Quotes About Simian

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

Darwin had asserted that the transmission of inherited intelligence was a key step in human evolution, driving our simian ancestors apart from the other apes.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

Jocelyn told me that she had never seen me so out of control of my life. Even the recent record of my mishandling of events with Mary and Francine might have alerted her to the fact that I often confronted problems like an improvising chimpanzee faced with the dashboard of a jumbo jet. What she did not grasp was that old muddle-minded Johnny was trying, above all else, in a spirit of life-long caprice, to re-establish his own authority and get his simian claws on the levers.

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

The closest thing to the human immunodeficiency viruses, Hahn explained, are the simian equivalents, SIVs. But "simian immunodeficiency virus" is a huge misnomer. The virus doesn't harm the immune systems of these natural hosts; they don't even seem to get sick. "If we could figure out how simian immune systems deal with the viruses, we might have a clue to controlling AIDS," she said. "That very hope drives my work.